Tootfinder

EA reports Q2 net bookings down 13% YoY to $1.82B, vs. $1.88B est., and says it will no longer issue forward-looking financial guidance due to its $55B sale (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/gaming/news/electronic-arts-sales-down-ea…

Electronic Arts Sales Down, Suspends Earnings Calls
Electronic Arts saw its sales fall 13% year over year during the July-September quarter.

Today is itch.io Creator Day, where, like Bandcamp Friday, itch will take no cut from sales and give all the money to the creators.
It's the perfect time to buy some great indie stuff ➡ #IndieGames

At last a sensible note on the bond problem that underpins the tax rises in #Budget2025.
"Slowing quantitative tightening, having the Bank of England absorb its own losses on its balance sheet and reducing the amount of interest paid out on reserves all offer ways for the government to recoup these losses and invest in public services and infrastructure. "
Budget tax rises to…

Budget tax rises to be overshadowed by Bank of England bond sales and losses
Bank of England to make cumulative losses of £112bn until 2030/31, wiping out the £78bn in tax rises raised in today’s budget

Apple baut US-Sales-Organisation um: "Dutzende" Entlassungen
Im Gegensatz zu Microsoft, Meta oder Amazon hat sich Apple bei Stellenstreichungen zurückgehalten. Nun will der Konzern den Vertrieb umbauen, was Jobs kostet.

Listen, if your article, post, company, sales monkey, etc., say “WCAG guidelines” or “WCAG guide” then you should not be surprised when I close the tab, walk away, hang up the phone, close the Zoom window, etc.

China's Geely takes on BYD.
(To the headline writer: still pretending Tesla is in this global affordable EV game is a bit funny.)
https://insideevs.com/news/782861/geely-xingyuan-affordable-ev-tesla-byd-china/

Meet The Affordable EV Beating Tesla And BYD At Their Own Game
Geely’s Xingyuan EV has rocked China’s electric vehicle sales charts in a short period, outselling even the Tesla Model Y and BYD Seagull.

Exasperation with the United States has been building in Vietnam.
Blow by blow, it has risen with the elimination of American aid for clean energy and H.I.V. prevention,
up-and-down tariffs,
indifference to requests for a leader-to-leader meeting,
a Trump family golf development near Hanoi that has enraged local residents,
and surprises like the new tax on U.S. imports of furniture
— one of Vietnam’s priority industries for growth.
It has been 50 ye…

Is the U.S. Losing in Vietnam? Russia, North Korea and China Are Gaining.
U.S. allies worry that American volatility and Russian outreach and arms sales, in particular, are driving Vietnam into a new phase.

"Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives"
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/19/tech/folotoy-kumma-ai-bear-scli-intl

Antenna: 57% of new Fox One subscriptions between its August 21 launch and October 31 came from Prime Video Channels, giving Fox One an edge over ESPN Unlimited (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/11/antenna-amazon-gives-fox-one-edge-over-es…

Antenna: Amazon Prime Video driving sign-ups to Fox One
Fox's decision to partner with Amazon for sales of Fox One helped it grow faster than ESPN Unlimited, according to Antenna.

Welcome to the world of the field, engineering.
For a long time, we've hired very few into sales, mktg, support or consulting that don't already gobs of experience elsewhere.
✅ How #Microsoft’s developers are using #AI - The Verge

How Microsoft’s developers are using AI
Microsoft is pushing its software developers to use AI internally. It’s part of an effort to get more AI agents doing the boring developer tasks.

I just received an e-mail with the subject
"Þú hefur til miðnættis!"
(YOU HAVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT!)
Hey Icelandair, I now pressure is a way to increase sales, but evoking fear?!?
#Icelandair

Sources: Shopify salespeople engaged in a sales fraud scheme inflating deal values for over a year, leading to internal investigations in mid-2024 and firings (Aleksandra Sagan/The Logic)
https://thelogic.co/news/exclusive/shopify-sales-fraud-investigation-firin…

Shopify rocked by sales fraud scandal that led to ultimatums and firings - The Logic
Shopify salespeople were inflating the value of the deals they were closing. When management found out, they told staff to own up or face the consequences.

thought i'd put together a little group so people can share interesting things they find at thrift stores, garage sales, flea markets, etc.! feel free to boost for visibility! @…

thought i'd put together a little group so people can share interesting things they find at thrift stores, garage sales, flea markets, etc.! feel free to boost for visibility! @…

Salesforce bringt Agentforce Sales als App in ChatGPT
Salesforce koppelt sein KI-gestütztes CRM mit ChatGPT. Vertriebsmitarbeitende sollen über den Chatbot künftig Kundendaten auswerten und Abschlüsse voranbringen.
ht…

US wine sales are way down, I have seen analyses saying it is people turning from alcohol,
but also Canadians dropped US wine almost completely (see graph). Pissing off your neighbors has consequences.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/a

Democrats warn Trump greenlighting Nvidia AI chip sales could boost China's military edge (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-warn-trump-green-lighting-nvidia-ai-chip-sales-could-boost-chinas-military-edge
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p59#a251224p59

A student just sent me the sales rank of my book on a certain online retailer.

Charm.io: TikTok Shop reached $10B in US sales across 600K creators between January and October, up from $5B YoY; global sales are on par with eBay's (Emmett Lindner/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/business/media/tiktok-shop-black-frida…

Faux Jewels and Slimming Belts: Why Shopping on TikTok Is a Lot Like QVC
The popular app’s online marketplace is growing rapidly in the United States, driven by TikTok’s popularity and influencer advertisements that look a lot like TV infomercials.

#sheesh
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/22/sales-weapons-resume-amid-shutdown?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#sheesh
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/22/sales-weapons-resume-amid-shutdown?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Charm.io: TikTok Shop reached $10B in US sales across 600K creators between January and October, up from $5B YoY; global sales are on par with eBay's (Emmett Lindner/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/business/media/tiktok-shop-black-frida…

Faux Jewels and Slimming Belts: Why Shopping on TikTok Is a Lot Like QVC
The popular app’s online marketplace is growing rapidly in the United States, driven by TikTok’s popularity and influencer advertisements that look a lot like TV infomercials.

the grand opening of oakshire place mobile home sales of union city, tennessee, may 1970, with free entertainment by... who?! (i don't think this was a previously known/rumored VU date?)

"If you’re serious about Linux, you’re unlikely to fall for the Omarchy sales pitch. However, if you’re an inexperienced user who’s heard about Omarchy from a tech-influencer raving about it, I strongly recommend starting your Linux journey elsewhere, with a distribution that actually prioritizes your security and system integrity, and is built and maintained by people who live and breathe systems, and especially Linux."

US approves $11bn in arms sales to Taiwan in deal likely to anger China | Weapons News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/18/us-approves-11bn-in-arms-sales-to-taiwan-in-deal-likely-to-anger-china?traffic_source=rss

"If you’re thinking all of this looks a lot like Musk trying to juice his #Tesla sales numbers—and therefore his Tesla stock share price—by playing a shell game with his own companies, you’re not alone. It isn’t quite the same as the disastrous special purpose entities that ultimately brought energy company #Enron

Cybertruck sales are so bad Musk is selling them to ... himself
You wanna see a dead body? Third-quarter sales numbers for Tesla’s misbegotten Cybertruck are in, and it is definitely spooky season for tech titan Elon Musk, who moved only 5,385 of the hideous ...

But if AI is so userful and everyone wants it, why does Microsoft have to cut its AI sales targets in half?
(Original title: Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/mic<…

Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas
Report: Microsoft declared “the era of AI agents” in May, but enterprise customers aren’t buying.

Sumble, which offers an AI sales intelligence service, emerges from stealth and raised a $30M Series A led by Canaan Partners and $8.5M seed led by Coatue (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/22/sumbl…

Sumble emerges from stealth with $38.5M to bring AI-powered context to sales intelligence | TechCrunch
The founders of machine learning community Kaggle are trying to upend the crowded sales prospecting market with AI. And they're making headway.

Ha!
"Synology Reverses Policy Banning Third-Party HDDs After NAS sales plummet"
https://www.guru3d.com/story/synology-reverses-policy-banning-thirdparty-hdds-after-nas-sales-plummet/

Synology Reverses Policy Banning Third-Party HDDs After NAS sales plummet
Synology has backtracked on one of its most unpopular decisions in years. After seeing NAS sales plummet in 2025, the company has decided to lift restrictions that forced users to buy its own Synology hard drives.

Say what you will about consumerism, but at least ripping people off is a form of having an actual relationship between human beings. An awful, sick relationship, but a relationship! Sales and marketing require that, at some level, you still view customers as people with thoughts and needs and desires and inner lives.
Now increasingly we run into things like the OP where even ripping people off is more acknowledgement of humanity than a company is willing to give.
5/

"Revealed: Soap Opera-inspired Clean Energy Ads Helped Shell Boost Petrol Sales in Brazil"
#Brazil #Shell #FossilFuels

Revealed: Soap Opera-inspired Clean Energy Ads Helped Shell Boost Petrol Sales in Brazil
British-owned VML used positivity of clean energy to build brand awareness that increased fuel sales, documents show.

Legit email from Psychz Networks, but not so impressive. It says I discontinued some service and they want me back (didn't happen).
The email goes on to say I should simply reply to the email with server specs you want to try and they'll set it up., signed "Best Regards, Sales Person". Oh PHPMailer...
"Hi, one more chance. Lemme get one of those 64 core, 1024GB RAM, 2xTB (4x if you got it) NVMe disks ) jobbies, k thx! p.s., don't forget the IP4 /24 …

House Energy and Commerce Committee unveils new draft children’s online safety bill https://therecord.media/house-commttee-unveils-new-kosa-bill

Sources: Apple cut dozens of sales roles to streamline sales to businesses, schools, and governments; Apple says the changes affect "a small number of roles" (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Großes Plädoyer für @… in der aktuellen Folge der @…! Vielen Dank dafür @… und @philp@c…

LdN459 Ukraine-Diplomatie in Berlin, Russlands eingefrorene Milliarden, EU-Kommission will Verbrenner nach 2035 erlauben, "Lage Live" ausverkauft, Ausschreibung: Lage sucht Sales-Profi, Feedback: Verweigerung und Wehrdienst, Verabschieden sich Linke von der Solidarität? (Prof. Steffen Mau, Soziologe, HU Berlin), Digitale Souveränität feat. Mastodon

"the drops in sales volumes are largely the results of French and EU car manufacturer’s own strategic choice to prioritise large, more profitable models [.] Despite lower sales volumes, their operating margins have increased. This premiumisation trend is not new, but it has accelerated in recent years, to the point of backfiring, with manufacturers now facing a sharp drop in sales and factories standing idle.
Rolling back the EU’s 2035 targets won’t solve the problem."

Maintaining the 2035 target: Ensuring a viable future for Europe’s automotive industry - I4CE
In the run up to the publication of the European Commission’s proposals for an automotive package on 10 December, car manufactures have stepped up the calls to relax the CO2 standards and the 2035 phase-out of new combustion-engine vehicles by including some flexibilities. They highlight the challenges the industry has faced in recent years, growing competitive pressure from China, and insufficient demand for electric vehicles in Europe as reasons for the sector needing more time for the tra…

Sweden just hit a massive milestone: electric vehicles now make up 65.4% of all car sales, with pure battery EVs at 40.4% and plug-in hybrids at 25%.
Volvo EX40 led the pack, while combustion-only cars dropped to just 21.8%. And it's about to accelerate even more—new government incentives kick in for 2026.

EVs At 65.4% Share In Sweden - Incentive Scheme Incoming - CleanTechnica
November’s auto sales saw plugin EVs at 65.4% share in Sweden, up from 61.7% year-on-year. BEVs were up in share, while PHEVs were flat.

Hundreds of protesters bought ice scrapers from Home Depot and immediately return them to freeze sales [Monrovia, CA]
Source:
#politics

Tesla global car sales grew until two years ago; then they started a slow decline.
From Statista.com

As traditional wine regions grapple with climate change and a decline in drinking, sales of domestic produce are surging in Sweden
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-10-03/sweden-emerges-as-unlikely-land-of…

I want this "toy": Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/19/tech/folotoy-kumma-ai-bear-scli-intl

NO REALLY https://www.guru3d.com/story/synology-reverses-policy-banning-thirdparty-hdds-after-nas-sales-plummet/

Target to lay off 1,800 employees amid boycott, declining sales
https://chicagocrusader.com/target-to-lay-off-1800-employees-amid-boycott-declining-sales/

The government’s biggest coal sales in more than a decade, is coming in a few days,
offering 600 million tons from publicly owned reserves next to strip mines in Montana and Wyoming.
The sales are a signature piece of Trump’s ambitions for companies to dig more coal from federal lands and burn it for electricity.
Yet most power plants served by those mines plan to quit burning coal altogether within 10 years, an Associated Press data analysis shows.
Three other mines po…

Trump wants to mine more coal from public lands as appetite for it lags
U.S. officials in coming days are set to hold the government’s biggest coal sales in more than a decade. About 600 million tons of the fuel will be auctioned from publicly owned reserves next to strip mines in Montana and Wyoming. Data analyzed by The Associated Press shows most of the power plants served by those mines plan to quit burning coal altogether within 10 years. The sales are a signature piece of President Donald Trump’s ambitions to dig and burn more coal from federal lands. The…

Sources: podcast companies like AudioBoom, Wave Sports, and Studio71 are discussing potential sales and investments, seeking to cash in on creator economy hype (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-11-24/…

France says it plans legal complaints against AliExpress and Joom over the sales of childlike sex dolls; Temu, Wish, eBay, and more are also under investigation (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e596612a-9ed1-446c-9ad4-2eef20fc5ac5

De volgende klap voor de Europese autofabrikanten en hun voorliefde voor diesel, LNG en waterstof...
China's shift to #ElectricTrucks may reshape global fuel demand (diesel and LNG): "While electric trucks are two to three times more expensive than diesel ones and cost roughly 18% more than LNG trucks, their higher energy efficiency and lower costs can save owners an esti…

China's shift to electric trucks may reshape global fuel demand
China is rapidly replacing its aging diesel trucks with electric models, signaling a major shift in the world’s largest vehicle market. Sales of electric trucks jumped 175% in the first half of 2025, with battery-electric vehicles now making up more than a fifth of the market. Electric trucks are now cheaper to buy and operate than diesel ones. Forecasts suggest heavy-duty electrics could account for half of new sales by 2028. Analysts estimate that the transition is displacing a substantial …

"Report: UK car industry on course to meet 2025 EV sales target"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #EV #ElectricVehicles

Circana: Xbox Series console sales fell 70% YoY to an all-time low in November, compared to the PS5's 40% YoY drop and Switch 1 and 2's combined 10% YoY fall (Rebekah Valentine/IGN)
https://www.ign.com/articles/xbox-us-console-unit-sales-…

Xbox U.S. Console Unit Sales Just Reached an All-Time November Low - IGN
This morning, we learned that November was a surprisingly bad month for video game spending across the board. But one console in particular is really struggling, and that's the Xbox.

Tesla US sales drop to nearly 4-year low in November despite launch of cheaper versions: the company's total sales fell nearly 23% to 39,800 vehicles from 51,513 a year earlier.
Now, about that trillion-dollar bonus :)
https://www.

The EU says its regulators asked Shein for documents on measures to prevent the exposure of minors to inappropriate content and the circulation of illegal items (Jenny Che/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Now what I •really• want is…oh, say, the ability to set a volume level for my daily alarm that’s independent of the other volume settings so that I don’t fail to wake up because I turned down my ringer.
But…I guess that sort of thing doesn’t move sales numbers. Or maybe it’s just beyond the limits of current technology.

⚡ What Tax Credit? Hyundai Slashes Ioniq 5 EV Price by Nearly $10,000
https://www.thedrive.com/news/what-tax-credit-hyundai-slashes-ioniq-5-ev-price-by-nearly-10000

What Tax Credit? Hyundai Slashes Ioniq 5 EV Price by Nearly $10,000
Ioniq 5 sales surged as buyers looked to take advantage of the now-dead tax credit. This is Hyundai's way of extending that rally.

The Free Birth Society (FBS) is a business run from North Carolina that promotes the idea of women giving birth without midwives or doctors present.
It is led by Emilee Saldaya and Yolande Norris-Clark,
ex-doulas turned social media influencers who have gained a global following through the FBS podcast, which has been downloaded millions of times.
FBS profits from sales of its instructional video guide to freebirthing, and access to a paid-for membership group for pregnant …

"Lidl Calls For Mandatory Plant-Based Targets To ‘Level The Playing Field’"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Lidl #Food

Lidl Calls For Mandatory Plant-Based Targets To 'Level The Playing Field'
Lidl has called on the UK government to introduce plant-based targets as part of mandatory healthy food sales reporting

Intel reports Q3 revenue up 3% YoY to $13.7B, vs. $13.2B est., and net income of $4.1B, vs. a net loss of $16.6B in Q3 2024; INTC jumps 5% after hours (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/23/intel-intc-earnings-report-q3-2025-.html

Intel beats on sales in first earnings report since U.S. government became top shareholder
Intel reported third-quarter results on Thursday in which sales beat analyst estimates, signaling that demand for its core x86 processors for PCs has recovered.

Oh great. Sales of pesticides containing PFAS 'forever chemicals' growing explosively, as more and more types are allowed on the market.
https://www.nieuweoogst.nl/nieuws/2025/11/12/afzet-gewasbeschermingsmiddelen-met-pf…

Afzet gewasbeschermingsmiddelen met PFAS neemt enorm toe
De afzet van PFAS-houdende gewasbeschermingsmiddelen is flink gestegen. In de periode 2010-2020 lag dit rond de 150.000 kilo, in 2023 was dit ruim 250.000 kilo. Fungiciden hebben het grootste aandeel. Dit blijkt uit onderzoek van adviesbureau CLM.

Chicago Public Media partners with alt-weekly Chicago Reader for a six-month pilot to sell ads and sponsorships; CPM brought in $13.1M in ads in 2024 (Austin Fuller/Current)
https://current.org/2025/11/chicago-public-medi…

Chicago Public Media teams up with alternative weekly Chicago Reader on advertising sales
The six-month pilot will include bundling placements across the Reader and Chicago Public Media’s Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ.

Sources: Nexperia's China unit has resumed chip sales to local distributors, with transactions now settled in yuan instead of foreign currencies such as the USD (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/nexperi…

Oughta be a law:
Home sales: Investors make up highest share of buyers in 5 years
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/07/home-sales-investors-make-up-highest-share-of-buyers-in-5-years.html

Dell reports Q3 revenue up 11% YoY to $27.01B, vs. $27.13B est., Infrastructure Solutions revenue up 24% to $14.1B, and Client Solutions revenue up 3% to $12.5B (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/25/dell-earnings-report-q3-2026.html

Dell misses on revenue, offers strong forecast driven by AI sales
Dell is an important bellwether for the health of the AI infrastructure industry as one of the top vendors for systems based around Nvidia graphics processors.

On Wednesday night, Nvidia released its highly anticipated/dreaded quarterly earnings report
— and Wall Street let out a sigh of relief,
— at least initially.
The multitrillion dollar chipmaker at the center of the AI boom reported
a ludicrous $57 billion in quarterly revenue,
netting it nearly $32 billion in profit.
Compared to the same quarter from the year before,
it amounted to a 62 percent surge in sales,
and a further 65 percent increase …

Oops! Nvidia’s Stock Is Falling Again After Its “Blowout” Earnings Report
After dazzling Wall Street with a "blowout" earnings report which saw its stock rise, Nvidia's stock is already declining.

ASML reports Q3 net sales of €7.5B, v. €7.7B est., and €2.12B net profit, v. €2.11B est., warning that it expects China sales to decline "significantly" in 2026 (April Roach/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/15/asml-q3-earnings-report.html

ASML looks to calm fears over 2026 growth as it warns of China sales decline
ASML on Wednesday looked to allay concerns over 2026 growth as net sales for the third quarter came in slightly below expectations.

Taylor Swift set a new record for first-week album sales, reaching 4M by releasing 38 variations of Life of a Showgirl, an increasingly popular strategy (Elias Leight/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/…

Manus says it crossed $100M ARR eight months after launch and is growing at 20% MoM since Manus 1.5's release; its total revenue run rate is now over $125M (Jake Rudnitsky/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Manus Says Sales Hit $125 Million Run Rate Months After Launch
Chinese AI pioneer Manus said its annual run rate for revenue is over $125 million, eight months after it released artificial intelligence agents designed to help execute tasks for users.

Ubisoft delayed reporting its Q2 results after auditors found it improperly booked sales from a partnership as revenue, forcing it to restate its accounts (Daniel Zuidijk/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…

Israel-based Second Nature, whose conversational AI helps train sales teams, raised a $22M Series B led by Sienna VC, taking its total raised to $80M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/bj0cciralg

Zoom-backed Second Nature raises $22 million Series B to expand AI sales training platform
The Israeli startup uses conversational AI to transform how companies coach sales teams. 

OnlyFans CEO Keily Blair says the platform has paid out $25B to creators since its founding in 2016; OnlyFans takes a 20% fee on subscriptions and content sales (Rose Henderson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Circana: US game console spending fell 27% in November to $695M, the lowest in the pivotal month for holiday shopping since 2005, after a tough year for makers (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…

US Game Console Sales Crater in Worst November in Two Decades
US spending on video game consoles fell 27% last month, marking the worst November in two decades as tariffs and rising component costs pushed prices to record highs.

Counterpoint: iPhone 17 series outsold iPhone 16 by ~14% in the first 10 days of sales in the US and China; base iPhone 17 sales doubled over iPhone 16 in China (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Nexstar reports Q3 revenue down 12.3% YoY to $1.19B and net income down 64% to $65M as ad revenue fell 23.5% to $476M due to lower political ad revenue (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Nexstar Quarterly Revenue, Income Falls on Lower Political Ad Sales
The latest financial results follow Nexstar unveiling a deal with smaller rival Tegna to merge its local TV stations amid the continuing consolidation of the U.S. broadcast sector.

Salesforce: online Black Friday sales grew 6% YoY to $79B globally, including $3B in US sales driven by AI agents; Adobe: US online sales rose 9.1% to $11.8B (Joan Verdon/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joanverdon/2025/…

Black Friday Data Shows Online Sales Strong, Store Results Mixed
U.S. ecommerce sales jumped 9.1% on Black Friday according to Adobe, but the verdict is still out on how well physical stores performed.

Oura CEO Tom Hale says the Finnish company expects "maybe close" to $2B in sales in 2026, up from $1B in 2025, and there is "no news on an IPO" (Tasmin Lockwood/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/11/smart-ring-maker-…

Oura expects close to $2 billion in 2026 sales, almost doubling for the second consecutive year
CEO Tom Hale spoke with CNBC's Arjun Kharpal in an exclusive interview at Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal.  

Zoom reports Q3 revenue up 4.4% YoY to $1.23B, vs. $1.21B est., enterprise revenue up 6.1% YoY to $741.4M, and a Q4 revenue forecast above estimates (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-24/zoo…

The US FCC bans imports, marketing, and sales of new foreign-made drones and components, including from China's DJI and Autel, citing national security concerns (Heather Somerville/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-secu

US companies sold $1.7T of investment-grade bonds in 2025, nearing the $1.8T 2020 record, driven by AI infrastructure borrowing; Goldman says AI makes up ~30% (Kate Duguid/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/faa3d747-9a32-4219-93eb-a93c10502f06

AI debt boom pushes US corporate bond sales close to record
Investment-grade borrowers have issued $1.7tn of bonds this year, closing in on 2020’s Covid debt rush

Nintendo reports Q2 revenue of $3.7B, vs. ~$3B est., and net profit of ~$667M, vs. ~$412M est.; it now expects 19M Switch 2 sales by March 2026, up from 15M (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/04/nintendo-raises-switch-2-sales-fo…

Nintendo hikes Switch 2 sales forecast to 19 million units as flagship console momentum grows
Nintendo is riding a wave of momentum after launching its latest console called the Switch 2.

Alibaba launches a free consumer-focused AI chatbot in its Quark app, powered by Qwen 3, and plans to open pre-sales for its $660 Quark AI Glasses on October 24 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/alibaba-launc…

President Trump says the US will allow Nvidia to ship H200 chips to "approved customers" in China and elsewhere, and that Xi Jinping "responded positively" (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/trump-nvidia-h200-sales-china.html…

Trump greenlights Nvidia H200 AI chip sales to China, says Xi responded positively

Sources: multiple Microsoft divisions lowered how much salespeople are supposed to grow sales of certain AI products after missing growth targets, a rare move (Aaron Holmes/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/mi

Microsoft Lowers AI Software Sales Quotas as Customers Resist Newer Products
Executives at Microsoft and other enterprise software firms heralded 2025 as the year artificial intelligence would be capable of automating tasks that involve multiple steps, such as generating dashboards based on company sales data. But as the year comes to a close, Microsoft has lowered ...

STMicro reports Q3 revenue down 2% YoY to $3.19B and operating income down 53% YoY to $180M, missing est., and forecasts Q4 revenue of $3.28B, below $3.35B est. (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Filing: Applied Materials plans to cut ~4% of its global workforce and expects the layoffs to cost $160M to $180M; it had 36,100 employees as of the end of July (Nick Turner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…

Sources: Databricks is raising $5B and expects sales to grow 55% this year, putting its post-money valuation at $134B, as AI costs squeeze gross profit margins (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/datab…

Databricks Boosts Sales Forecast, Driving Valuation to $134 Billion
Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi has been more vocal than other Silicon Valley executives about the dangers of an AI bubble. His company’s new $5 billion round of fundraising, at a higher valuation than ever, epitomizes the risks and rewards of the boom: While sales are growing faster than forecast, AI ...

TikTok Shop sold an estimated $19B worth of products globally in Q3, with US sales up 125% compared to Q2, reaching eBay's scale two years after its US launch (Zeyi Yang/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-shop-sales-global-ecommerce/

TikTok Shop Is Now the Size of eBay
TikTok’s ecommerce arm has kept growing steadily, despite tariffs and never-ending debates over whether the platform should be banned.

Sources: Apple is delaying the release of the next version of the iPhone Air, originally planned for fall 2026, after the first model sold below expectations (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-delays-release-next-iphon…

Apple Delays Release of Next iPhone Air Amid Weak Sales
Apple is delaying the release of next year’s version of the iPhone Air, its thinnest smartphone, after the first model sold below expectations, according to three people involved in the project. Although the length of the delay remains uncertain, the product won’t be released in fall 2026 as ...

Sources: xAI has created an enterprise AI sales group, but xAI's lack of experience in selling to big businesses is holding potential customers back (Theo Wayt/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/xai-uphill-battle-selling-grok-busine…

Why xAI Has an Uphill Battle Selling Grok to Businesses
Elon Musk’s xAI wants companies around the world to buy its Grok AI models as it tries to build a moneymaking business. To get there, xAI has created an enterprise AI sales group over the past half-year that has expanded to more than a dozen people. But xAI’s lack of experience in selling to big ...

Anrok, which helps software companies automate sales tax compliance, raised a $55M Series C at a $525M valuation, up from $250M after raising $30M in April 2024 (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

OnlyFans CEO Keily Blair says the platform has paid out $25B to creators since its founding in 2016; OnlyFans takes a 20% fee on subscriptions and content sales (Rose Henderson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

A look at Meta's 2GW Hyperion data center in Louisiana, with the first phase opening in 2028; an analysis shows sales tax breaks on GPUs could total $3.3B (Jon Keegan/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/hyperion/

The power play behind Hyperion, Mark Zuckerberg’s colossal data center being built in rural Louisiana
$10 billion of investment. Code names to disguise projects and companies. Mixed opinions. Skyrocketing property values. And enough tax breaks to pay every state cop in Louisiana for seven years.

Source: livestream shopping app Whatnot nears ~$1B in revenue for 2025; Whatnot says it has passed $6B in gross sales this year, more than doubling 2024's sales (Ann Gehan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/live…

Livestream Shopping App Whatnot Nears $1 Billion in 2025 Revenue
Livestream shopping app Whatnot is targeting close to $1 billion in revenue for 2025, according to a person with knowledge of the company’s finances. The six-year-old company has quietly grown into one of e-commerce’s hottest companies, raising more than $500 million in new funding this year and boosting its valuation to $11.5 billion. Whatnot originally started as a place for collectors of Funko

Microsoft says "aggregate sales quotas for AI products have not been lowered", following a report that some units lowered sales growth targets for AI products (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsof…

German chipmaker Infineon reports Q4 revenue up 1% YoY to €3.94B, vs. €3.91B est., a €231M net profit, and expects 2026 sales growth as AI demand keeps booming (Mauro Orru/Wall Street Journal)
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Broadcom reports Q4 revenue up 28% YoY to $18.02B, vs. $17.49B est., and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates, with AI chip sales doubling to $8.2B (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/11/broadcom-avgo-q4-earnings-2025.html

Broadcom beats on earnings and revenue, says AI chip sales will double in current quarter
Broadcom stock is near an all-time high and has climbed 75% so far in 2025.

Circana: EA's Battlefield 6 became 2025's best-selling US game less than a month after its October 10 debut; Pokémon is 2025's fastest-selling physical game (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

TSMC reports a 16.9% rise in October sales, the slowest pace since February 2024, highlighting uncertainty over the AI boom's sustainability; TSMC is up 37% YTD (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-…

Nvidia reports Q3 revenue up 62% YoY to $57.01B, vs. $54.92B est., Data Center revenue up 66% to $51.2B, and net income up 65% to $31.9B (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/nvidia-nvda-earnings-report-q3-2026.html

Nvidia shares rise on stronger-than-expected revenue, forecast
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said sales for the company's current-generation GPU, called Blackwell, are "off the charts."

Block debuts Square Bitcoin, a BTC wallet allowing US-based SMBs to convert up to 50% of daily sales into BTC now and accept BTC payments starting November 10 (Mat Di Salvo/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/343470/jack-dorseys-square-unveils-bitcoin-payments…

Jack Dorsey's Square Unveils Bitcoin Payments, Wallet for Retailers
Block's Square has debuted a new product allowing merchants to accept Bitcoin and convert sales into the cryptocurrency.

Financial disclosures to investors suggest OpenAI generated ~$4.3B in revenue in H1 2025, 16% more than all of 2024, and burned $2.5B, largely due to R&D costs (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-fir…

OpenAI’s First Half Results: $4.3 Billion in Sales, $2.5 Billion Cash Burn
OpenAI generated around $4.3 billion in revenue in the first half of 2025, about 16% more than it generated all of last year, according to financial disclosures to shareholders. The company said it burned $2.5 billion, in large part due to its research and development costs for developing ...